Stitchwort is the common name of several plants of the following genera:
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Minuartia
''Minuartia'' is a genus of flowering plants commonly known as sandworts in the family Caryophyllaceae.
Minuartias are small annual or perennial plants which grow in otherwise inhospitable conditions such as on rocky ledges and in stony soil. Th ...
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Stellaria
''Stellaria'' is a genus of about 190 species of flowering plants in the family Caryophyllaceae, with a cosmopolitan distribution. Common names include starwort, stitchwort and chickweed.
Description
''Stellaria'' species are relatively small ...
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Wort plants
This is an alphabetical listing of wort plants, meaning plants that employ the syllable ''wort'' in their English-language common names.
According to the Oxford English Dictionary's Ask Oxford site, "A word with the suffix ''-wort'' is often very ...
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